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   Exandra (alexbbrown@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 02:28:16 JST Exandra

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs so do you view this as equivalent to a knockoff clone of StackOverflow/Wikipedia which hijacks their ad revenue?

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     Pete Keen (zrail@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 02:29:52 JST Pete Keen

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs yeah the whole thing is baffling. In my mind these LLMs are a snapshot in time and are going to lead to a lot of stagnation.

     Whether that's a good thing in specific domains is a conversation to be had, I guess, but it seems like few care.

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     Chris [list of emoji] (suetanvil@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 03:55:21 JST Chris [list of emoji]

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     What I really want from "AI" (or just AI) is something that will find the website(s) containing the information I'm looking for, not just a contextless "answer" that may or may not be correct.

     Someone should really try making a good search engine.

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     Chris [list of emoji] (suetanvil@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 03:55:23 JST Chris [list of emoji]

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     So a thing that I've realized from thinking about the Yegge essay is that the way I use Stack Overflow is fundamentally different from what "AI" does for me.

     I don't look to SO for *answers*. I look for strategies ("use this API/algorithm"), pointers to existing documentation, and examples of things I've already read the docs for and am having trouble seeing idiomatic uses of.

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     Oscar Bazaldua (oscb@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 05:47:53 JST Oscar Bazaldua

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs yea, we should be talking about "generative" AI, more like "remix" AI.

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     Captain Observant (captainobservant@zeroes.ca)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 08:33:15 JST Captain Observant

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs "garbage in, garbage out." My dad told me this was a fundamental principle of computers... And he wasn't even a programmer.